If you're not a leftist when you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a leftist when you're 40, you have no brain.

I think you are deeply out of touch with the contemporary car market.

It addresses your whole comment, which is about who this vehicle is for.

This is a vehicle for people who actually need and want a truck to do the kind of useful everyday hauling people who live in the suburbs actually need. It's for people who actually need a truck for practical reasons, not for people who want a giant penis extender.

This is a truck for people who need a truck. It's not suitable for people who just want to larp as a rancher.

I don't know how to make you understand the value of owning your own things.

So you can own your game.

Games came on multiple disks back in the day. Why not now?

Here's a fun one. We find an archive. Stored in a form durable enough to last eternity, we find a vault, the last remnant of some long-forgotten Martian civilization.

They include the usual history, culture, historical artifacts, etc. But what shocks our explorers most of all? The biological archive. DNA sequences, freeze dried tissue samples, etc. Their language, once cracked, reveals the truth.

This isn't just a library or archive to remember the Martians. They knew they were on a slowly dying world. They never got rocket technology, though they did master advanced biology before the end. So they included everything needed to revive them, to actually bring them back from the dead.

Then we have to figure out what to do. This isn't the dodo bird or some other species we, humanity, are responsible for killing off. The Martians died of natural causes a billion years before our ancestors crawled out of the water. We have no ancestral moral debt to the Martians.

Sure, we could bring them back. But think through the implications of that. Mars is their world, the very planet we were planning to colonize. Will they want it back, maybe ask to live on Earth in the millennia it takes to teraform it? And even then, we'll now have a literal alien civilian right on our doorstep. Do we really want to open that Pandora's Box?

I was introduced to the concept of the moral dilemma of bringing back extinct aliens from Isaac Arthur, and it's a scenario I truly love.

What if I fill the bed up to the cargo capacity of the vehicle in nothing but batteries? :D

What do you think the mind is other than a physical thing directly molded by the environment around it?

It's more about regional populations movements. There is no vast movement of people from the cities to the countryside. Rural areas continue to drop in population just as they have for the last century. The rural areas have a higher cost of living when you include job prospects. People can only afford to bid up the housing costs in cities because the jobs pay better than in the sticks.

This has nothing to do with the agrarian transition. These depopulating cities were created by the agrarian transition. They were where people went after they left the rural areas.

Two men were standing under a tree when it began to rain. One said to the other, "good thing this tree will keep us dry."

"But what happens when the treek is soaked, and it can no longer keep us dry?" Asked the second.

"Don't worry," said the first, "we're in a forest. We'll just run to another tree."

I think the bigger issue is actually more on the positive side than the negative. In a social media world, it is hard to gain esteem from realistically achievable effort.

I'll use my hobby, woodworking, as an example. I'm a hobbiest woodworker. I'm a far better woodworker than all of my family and all except maybe one or two of my friends. But then again, all the others don't do it as a hobby. They have their own pursuits that I can't begin to match their skill in. I can show my works to those in my immediate circle and receive genuine admiration and praise for a job well done. My work is legitimately impressive to those around me.

But on social media? Suddenly I'm comparing myself to people who have done this all day everyday for 30 years as their profession. Or I'm comparing myself to people who present a very curated version of their work. I can't do this full time. I have a day job. I will never be as good at this as someone who spent decades doing this and nothing but this. And if I compare myself to people like that, then it will make my own work feel less valuable.

We weren't meant to compare ourselves to the most skilled people on Earth at every single activity and craft. We're meant to produce things and to make things and do things that are legitimately impressive to those around us, but are still achievable with realistic effort. You shouldn't have to spend decades doing something before you can achieve even a modicum of social esteem. That's not how humans are evolved to exist. We're met to live in and seek to impress relatively small groups of people.

Your brain is one of the most artificial things in existence. How many years did you spend in formal education in one form or another? What is education other than a way of shaping a mind to a certain form?

There's an old saying. "Anyone can build a bridge that stands up. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that will barely stand up."

Some may say that the hangman was clearly incompetent. Others might say he was actually the most skilled at his craft on this Earth, simply....optimizing for a different variable.

That will not happen with a Democrat in office. Still probably worth voting for them in the general for harm reduction. But don't kid yourself. The next Democratic president will appoint a Republican as attorney general and FBI head. Their cabinet will be half centrist Democrats, 1/4 progressive, and 1/4 Republican.

Putting faith in Democrats to bring justice to Republicans is literally believing in magic. It's completely divorced from history. You might as well put your faith in a literal angel coming down from heaven and personally hauling Trump kicking and screaming into Hell. Both events are equally likely.

Ford and Carter let Nixon's crimes slide. Bush I and Clinton let Reagan's crimes slide. Obama let Bush II's crimes slide. And Biden appointed a Republican attorney general who initially refused to do anything, acceded only under Congressional pressure, then slow-walked things until Trump could run out the clock.

Again, Democrats are better in terms of general harm reduction, but it's like comparing two plagues. If you gave me the choice, I would vote for another big Covid pandemic over a global Ebola outbreak, but that doesn't mean Covid isn't still a plague.

We have three clear examples of cartoonishly corrupt Republicans committing crimes left and right. Dems are 0 out of 3.

I'm a scientist. I go buy the evidence observable to my eyes. I see Democrats are 0/3 for holding criminal Republican administrations accountable. That's the evidence I'm basing my conclusion on - actual historical observation.

Do you have any evidence you would like to bring up? Because all you've said so far is "trust me bro."

Games are ultimately about telling a story, through literal plot narrative or metaphor. I like it when people tell stories. I don't want to be told a story by a damned machine.

I mean, eventually, he can improve by repetition if nothing else. I mean, wasn't he objectively one of the most experienced executioners in modern history?

That seems like the type of thing that would still need to be administered very carefully by an expert dentist. Look at the entire field of orthodontics or the product category of braces to see what happens when teeth grow in in the wrong number, position, or orientation. In theory, anyone can perform surgery on themselves with a scalpel they sterilize on their stove top. Very few attempt that for damn good reasons.